James Branch Cabell : An Illustrated Bibliography
THE DEVIL'S OWN DEAR SON: A Comedy of the Fatted Calf
Hall Code |
Description |
DODS-B1 (E) |
First English Printing 1950 |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: A COMEDY OF THE FATTED CALF | [single star device] | [in decorative script] The Devil's | Own Dear Son | [single star device] | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | THE BODLEY HEAD • LONDON (see image above).
Title page verso: first published 1950 | [in italic] This book is copyright. No portion of it may be | reproduced by any process without written permission. | Inquiries should be addressed to the publisher. | Printed in Great Britain by | SCOTTISH COUNTRY PRESS, DALKEITH | for JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD | 8 Bury Place, London, W.C.1 (see image above).
Publication:
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1950
Collation:
Duodecimo [18.7 cm. (7⅜ in.) x 13.2 cm. (5 3/16 in.)]; 198 pp.; (1) half-title; (2) by the same author; (3) title page; (4) publication data; (5) dedication (verso blank); (7) Contents (verso blank);(9) fly-title: Preface; (10) quotation; 11-24 text of Preface; (25) fly-title - Part I; (26) quotation; 27-198 text. Pages (9), (25), (41), (85), (125), (167), and (187) are fly-titles.
Binding:
Salmon cloth, black lettering on spine, front cover blank; all edges trimmed. Spine: [in italic] The | Devil's | Own | Dear | Son | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | The | Bodley | Head (see image above).
Dedication:
[in italic] For | NORTON SANFORD BASKIN | In part because of his large | knowledge of the tourist trade; | but above all, because of my | large admiration. (see image above).
Dust jacket:
White paper, spine and front panel over drawing in black over maroon ground by "Elias," lettered in white; other panels lettered in black with maroon initials and highlights (see image above).
Spine: [in decorative script] The | DEVILS | own | dear | son | JAMES | BRANCH | CABELL | [in decorative script] The | Bodley | Head
Front panel: [over illustration by Elias] [in decorative script] The DEVIL'S | own dear SON | JAMES BRANCH CABELL
Rear panel: [in italic] James Branch Cabell | [blurbs for Jurgen (16th impression) and The Silver Stallion (4th impression)] | [rule] THE BODLEY HEAD
Front flap: 26-line blurb in four paragraphs | [flush right] 8s 6d net
Rear flap: Printed in Great Britain for | John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd.
Notes:
This binding lacks a rear free endpaper, unlike the variant binding, DODS-B1a (E). We encountered a similar anomaly with the John Lane printing of There Were Two Pirates, TWTP-B1 (E).
